Looking for some creative answer here. This is my backup phone right now, but I'm trying to get it flashed back to stock. Here's the thing, I don't have a power button. Last year, I came across the issue of the phone turning on and off constantly, after a lot of research, it was determined to be caused by a faulty power button, so I took it off. To power my phone on, I take out the battery, put it back in, plug in a USB cable while pressing Vol Down and Home, and then select the boot normally.
Now, after trying to flash stock with ODIN, i'm stuck on the Samsung logo on bootup. After a bit of looking around, it seems the common resolution is to wipe cache factory reset in recovery. Unfortunately, while I can get into recovery and arrow down to the option, I can't select it due to the lack of power button.
So, is there any way with adb or fastboot that I can do the factory reset or whatever? Or is there any other options?
Maybe flash twrp and use that to wipe.
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I upgraded from 2.51.1 to 3.4.2-117, and the phone lags, seems to me that it is because of the google sync. Someone posted the very same problem and said that factory reset solved his problem.
My problem is that the phone does not do factory reset, in Privacy I press the erase button and nothing happens.
I tried to boot into recovery, but I can't get into it. The droid comes up but upon touching the lower right corner nothing happens.
When i try to boot with vol up and down same time, the phone boots into safe mode.
How shall I get into recovery so I could do a wipe? The phone is basically unuseable now because of the lags and freezes
Hey mate! Don't give up. When you see the droid in the center of the lcd just push vol+ and vol- at once. You'll get into recovery mode. )))
thx dude, i figured it out "accidentaly"
Everyone was writing on the net that the recovery boot is up and down the same time instead of the old method of power & volume -.
So, when I got to the droid, started to push every possible button in every possible variation and I got in.
since then I learned that the vol up and down is after power & vol -, not instead.
While booting a back up of MIUI 1.1.28.1 my phone rebooted went through the process fine, then right after I got past the lock screen it shut off, and I couldn't turn it back on. Just before this I updated to the newest Clockworkmod 3.0.0.7. I thought my phone was done for so i let it sit for the night on the charger in the morning i tried to turn it on using the power and volume down button and it booted into recovery so I went along and tried a normal reboot, same thing got to the lock screen, powered down on it's own again. I've been trying to turn it on again now just to get it into recovery and maybe work with it there but it's not going for it. Any suggestions?
Since you can get to recovery screen it is not bricked. In general you can not brick by flashing a rom, only brick by flashing non-working radio or hboot
Here is how to fix it.
1) Download another ROM to the SD Cards. Pick a stable one, I recommend CM6.1
2) Boot into recovery and enter Clockworkmod
3) Wipe everything (Cache/Data/Dalvik cache)
4) Flash new rom in recovery
I got into recovery once after the initial shut dow, now i'm having the same problem as prior it simply will not turn on i've tried most combinations of the buttons and nothing seems to work any suggestions for getting it into recovery again? I realize that I need to boot another rom now but I need to get the phone on first haha. Thanks again
There's only one combination that should boot into recovery.
Turn it on holding down the volume up arrow. If it doesn't do that then you may have seriously messed up or even bricked your phone.
POQbum said:
There's only one combination that should boot into recovery.
Turn it on holding down the volume up arrow. If it doesn't do that then you may have seriously messed up or even bricked your phone.
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Volume down* up is qualcomm diagnostics. And that's to get into HBOOT, not recovery lol. Also, holding down on the optical trackpad works just the same as if you're holding volume down.
Sent from my Droid Incredible running Myn's Warm TwoPointTwo RLS5.3.
slong427 said:
I got into recovery once after the initial shut dow, now i'm having the same problem as prior it simply will not turn on i've tried most combinations of the buttons and nothing seems to work any suggestions for getting it into recovery again? I realize that I need to boot another rom now but I need to get the phone on first haha. Thanks again
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1) Enter Recovery
a. Pull the battery.. wait 10-30 seconds
b. Re-insert battery
c. Power and Volume DOWN with get you to white Hboot screen.
d. Volume down key to highlight recovery, then use press the power button to enter recovery.
2) You should now be in CWM Recovery. Now it is time to wipe everything.
a. Select "wipe data/factory reset"
b. Select "wipe cache partition"
c. Select "advanced" -> "wipe Dalvik Cache"
3) Now it is time to load a new stable ROM, ensure rom is load onto SD card. Recommend CM6.1
a. Use back button to return to CWM Recovery home
b. Select "install zip from sdcard"
c. Select "choose zip from sdcard"
d. Select the zip file rom you load on the SD card.
That should do it! Let me know if you need anything else.
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While booting a back up of MIUI 1.1.28.1 my phone rebooted went through the process fine, then right after I got past the lock screen it shut off, and I couldn't turn it back on. Just before this I updated to the newest Clockworkmod 3.0.0.7. I thought my phone was done for so i let it sit for the night on the charger in the morning i tried to turn it on using the power and volume down button and it booted into recovery so I went along and tried a normal reboot, same thing got to the lock screen, powered down on it's own again. I've been trying to turn it on again now just to get it into recovery and maybe work with it there but it's not going for it. Any suggestions?
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This happened to me yesterday, and here is how I eventually fixed it.
Let the phone boot up as far as it would go.
Pluged in my USB to PC
Ran reflash_package.exe from unREVOlked
Booted up normally.
Hope this solves your issue.
John
Thanks everyone got it all figured out it ended up being something really simple I just jumped to thinking my phone was done for, thanks for all your help!
Slong427 could you let me know what your fix was? i have been plagued with this issue for two days now and any rom i try gets to the unlock screen and shuts down. thanks, ian
I rooted my G2 about two months ago. I'm currently using MIUI, not the latest but the one before it. Somehow, my phone got turned off and when I tried to turn it back on, it was stuck in a bootloop. I have a custom recovery image so I don't know if that affects anything. I tried to reboot into recovery by pressing volume down and power, nothing happened. I then did volume up and power. It vibrated three times and the orange light started flashing. I pulled the battery and now when I try to turn it on, nothing happens. So how do I reboot into recovery and so I can restore my backup? Any help/suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Volume down + power will get you to hboot (bootloader), you can then select recovery from there.
Vol up + power is Qualcomm download mode, which is unusable.
-Nipqer
Thank you! I saw that somewhere else and tried it but it didnt work. I plugged up my phone it seems to be charging. I guess I should've done that first because then it came up. I tried reboot now and clockwork came up again so I tried to restore my latest backup and nothing happened. I'm going to let it charge and then try again.
Ok I feel stupid. I have been this stuff for a while but I just got a new in box Note 4 to play with and trying to root. CID is 15 and it came with 6.0.1 and I just Odin to 5.1.1 and it just boot loops. I tried running the Odin several times and same thing.
I flashed this file 5.1.1 N910VVRU2BPA1_N910VVZW2BPA1_N910VVRU2BPA1_HOME.tar
What am I missing here?
Not alot of help in this Note 4 area... You all are to quiet. LOL It seems like the rooting community is going away. I myself will not own a phone that is not rooted. Running the Moto X Pre as my daily driver and it's an awesome phone.
So I will post what I did to fix this Boot Loop Issue after trying to downgrade firmware to 5.1.1 from 6.0.1. I picked up the Note 4 from a local sell new in box for 100 bucks I figured what the hell kool phone to play with.
Ok I just flashed this official verizon 5.1.1 firmware N910VVRU2BPA1_N910VVZW2BPA1_N910VVRU2BPA1_HOME.tar with Odin 3.12 again
So After I got done flashing this firmware I did these steps.
1. Turn phone off completely.
2. To start the phone, press the following keys simultaneously: Power Button, Home Button, Volume +
3. When the first logo can be seen on the screen, release the power button, but hold the Home button and the Volume + button pressed
4. It now appears on the screen of your phone, a small menu. Navigate with the Volume + and Volume - keys. An entry is selected by the Power Button
5. Select in this menu now "Wipe Cache Partition".
6. After you have selected the entry the Wipe cache is flushed. This takes a few seconds. Then it automatically returns to the small menu.
7. Now select the top entry with "Reboot Now"
Also while I was in that menu area I went ahead and did a factory reset wipe all data.
My Verizon Note 4 is now on 5.1.1 and works.
Now I will continue to root this thing.
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Not alot of help in this Note 4 area... You all are to quiet. LOL It seems like the rooting community is going away. I myself will not own a phone that is not rooted. Running the Moto X Pre as my daily driver and it's an awesome phone.
So I will post what I did to fix this Boot Loop Issue after trying to downgrade firmware to 5.1.1 from 6.0.1. I picked up the Note 4 from a local sell new in box for 100 bucks I figured what the hell kool phone to play with.
Ok I just flashed this official verizon 5.1.1 firmware N910VVRU2BPA1_N910VVZW2BPA1_N910VVRU2BPA1_HOME.tar with Odin 3.12 again
So After I got done flashing this firmware I did these steps.
1. Turn phone off completely.
2. To start the phone, press the following keys simultaneously: Power Button, Home Button, Volume +
3. When the first logo can be seen on the screen, release the power button, but hold the Home button and the Volume + button pressed
4. It now appears on the screen of your phone, a small menu. Navigate with the Volume + and Volume - keys. An entry is selected by the Power Button
5. Select in this menu now "Wipe Cache Partition".
6. After you have selected the entry the Wipe cache is flushed. This takes a few seconds. Then it automatically returns to the small menu.
7. Now select the top entry with "Reboot Now"
Also while I was in that menu area I went ahead and did a factory reset wipe all data.
My Verizon Note 4 is now on 5.1.1 and works.
Now I will continue to root this thing.
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so the bootloop was caused by ? im gonna guess dmverity but it could also just been misflashed ....failing to uncheck the reboot upon flash option for example . powering the phone all the way down then into recovery ....id like to go with misflash if you had failed dmverity you would have seen a red message in recovery stating that was the case
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So my wife's Note 4, not rooted. Must have failed during a forced update. It's gone into 2 types of boot loops. Either it says 'Recovery boot' only, with no recovery menu, followed by the 'Galaxy' screen, and then back to the boot loop. Or it shows the Galaxy screen, and just barely begins to initialize the 'Samsung' logo with the 'S' first, and then back to boot loop.
I've tried about 3 different firmwares through Odin, including successful ones that 'Pass'. And it still exhibits the same loops. I've tried bootloaders in Odin, about anything you can imagine. It's clearly not bricked, but I cannot for the life of me make progress.
The old battery I thought was going bad (a lot of bad battery problems with loops), and I bought a new battery. But given it will only loop (outside of the download screen), I can't even get the batteries to charge because it's either looping or on download screen.
Any questions or ideas? Or is there a user who is an expert I can ship and pay to fix?
I'm a novice in large part. Thanks guys.
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So my wife's Note 4, not rooted. Must have failed during a forced update. It's gone into 2 types of boot loops. Either it says 'Recovery boot' only, with no recovery menu, followed by the 'Galaxy' screen, and then back to the boot loop. Or it shows the Galaxy screen, and just barely begins to initialize the 'Samsung' logo with the 'S' first, and then back to boot loop.
I've tried about 3 different firmwares through Odin, including successful ones that 'Pass'. And it still exhibits the same loops. I've tried bootloaders in Odin, about anything you can imagine. It's clearly not bricked, but I cannot for the life of me make progress.
The old battery I thought was going bad (a lot of bad battery problems with loops), and I bought a new battery. But given it will only loop (outside of the download screen), I can't even get the batteries to charge because it's either looping or on download screen.
Any questions or ideas? Or is there a user who is an expert I can ship and pay to fix?
I'm a novice in large part. Thanks guys.
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Hi when in odin ensure you untick reboot after flash . Power it all the way off upon sucessful flash then power it back on into recovery (hold up volume power home) wipe cache wipe dalvik reboot system. The power off is absolutely crucial and the most common flash error. If this doesnt work repost shouldnt be too hard to fix things is damn near unbrickable
If you change from 6.0 to old 5.1.1 firmware with Odin it will go into bootloop. You must do factory reset, than use Odin to flash 5.1.1 and than do another factory reset.
The first problem I encountered while rooting my phone was that TWRP wouldn't stick, even though I didn't choose read only (ie i allowed it to make system modifications on the first TWRP boot) after rebooting
and booting back into recovery I would boot into stock recovery, instead of TWRP. So I tried flashing twrp, booting into it and rooting the phone, which was successful!
THE ROOT was successful, TWRP still didn't stick, every time I want to boot into TWRP I have to boot into it via fastboot.
Getting to the main problem, I booted into twrp, flashed a custom rom and got stuck in a bootloop while rebooting. It reboots every 15 seconds, I have kept the power button pressed for almost 2 minutes it doesn't stop the bootloop, I tried other combinations of vol buttons and power buttons does nothing.
One weird thing is that while it's in the loop I just have to press the vol down button and it boots into fastboot (as opposed to both the power button and vol down) when I boot into fastboot it stays there for about 6-7 seconds before rebooting, I tried booting into twrp through fastboot, but before I am able to enter the decryption password to start twrp, the phone reboots.
Should I let it run out of battery? will that stop the bootloop? I have a backup in twrp but I can't access twrp!
Does anyone have a solution?
[update] I let it run out of battery and on charging it continued the bootloop, with great difficulty i managed to install stock img file but the device just wont quit the bootloop
LeonDsouza123 said:
The first problem I encountered while rooting my phone was that TWRP wouldn't stick, even though I didn't choose read only (ie i allowed it to make system modifications on the first TWRP boot) after rebooting
and booting back into recovery I would boot into stock recovery, instead of TWRP. So I tried flashing twrp, booting into it and rooting the phone, which was successful!
THE ROOT was successful, TWRP still didn't stick, every time I want to boot into TWRP I have to boot into it via fastboot.
Getting to the main problem, I booted into twrp, flashed a custom rom and got stuck in a bootloop while rebooting. It reboots every 15 seconds, I have kept the power button pressed for almost 2 minutes it doesn't stop the bootloop, I tried other combinations of vol buttons and power buttons does nothing.
One weird thing is that while it's in the loop I just have to press the vol down button and it boots into fastboot (as opposed to both the power button and vol down) when I boot into fastboot it stays there for about 6-7 seconds before rebooting, I tried booting into twrp through fastboot, but before I am able to enter the decryption password to start twrp, the phone reboots.
Should I let it run out of battery? will that stop the bootloop? I have a backup in twrp but I can't access twrp!
Does anyone have a solution?
[update] I let it run out of battery and on charging it continued the bootloop, with great difficulty i managed to install stock img file but the device just wont quit the bootloop
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1. Try flashing new recovery image using TWRP booted via fastboot.
2. Does your phone had contact with any fluid or was in place with high humidity level for longer time? Your power button is short circuited. In other words it is in pressed state all the time. I had same problem on my previous P2 when I came from 1h running session in light rain. Some sweat and/or water got inside my volume down button and same thing happened.
In my case the phone button recovered itself after drying and clicking it a lot of times
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1. Try flashing new recovery image using TWRP booted via fastboot.
2. Does your phone had contact with any fluid or was in place with high humidity level for longer time? Your power button is short circuited. In other words it is in pressed state all the time. I had same problem on my previous P2 when I came from 1h running session in light rain. Some sweat and/or water got inside my volume down button and same thing happened.
In my case the phone button recovered itself after drying and clicking it a lot of times
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I can't access TWRP as the phone doesn't give me enough time to enter the password for decryption, which is asked at the start every time you boot into TWRP, I get like 5 seconds in TWRP before the phone reboots
It is possible that the power button is spoilt as I have sweaty hands...
LeonDsouza123 said:
I can't access TWRP as the phone doesn't give me enough time to enter the password for decryption, which is asked at the start every time you boot into TWRP, I get like 5 seconds in TWRP before the phone reboots
It is possible that the power button is spoilt as I have sweaty hands...
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That's the reason. I know that pain. You should try pressing that button with different pressure (but be careful) and move you finger while doing it. Maybe it will recover itself. If not you should find someone trusted who will open the phone and clean the buttons from the inside. It's a shame that Lenovo just left this construction vunerable like that.
After you get your P2 working properly again then just buy case that will cover whole buttons to prevent situations like this next time. Also make sure to clean it regullary inside.
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